Under the Treaty of Ryswick, the Eifel country was for almost a hundred years freed of French hegemony.

[8] Established as administrative units on the French model were departments, which in turn were subdivided into arrondissements and cantons.

[9] In 1814, French times came to an end in the Eifel, which as a result of the Congress of Vienna was assigned to Prussia.

Even the civil registry (baptisms, marriages and deaths) introduced by Napoleon was carried on by the new administration.

The cross on the dexter (armsbearer's right, viewer's left) side refers to Niederöfflingen's centuries-long allegiance to the Electorate of Trier.

The lily on the sinister (armsbearer's left, viewer's right) side stands for Niederöfflingen's history as an Abbey of Echternach holding.

[4] A new building of Saint Edeltrudis's Church was built in 1822, for which stonecarving from the destroyed Himmerod Abbey was used for doors and windows, and also a portal.

On the occasion of the visitation on 22 February 1657 undertaken under Carl Casper von Leyen, the ravages of the Thirty Years' War were shown.

Along with eight other municipalities, it forms the "Öfflingen" Forest District (Forstrevier), founding its own forest administration to furnish jobs for forestry workers, to create synergical effects in cultivating the woodlands and employing the forestry workers and to have a highly mechanized wood harvest with optimal added value.

On the Devon-Route, one of three GEO routes in the Manderscheid region, the links among natural, cultural and earth history reveal themselves.

3 August 1914; d. 4 December 2006), priest with the Divine Word Missionaries, Honorary Citizen of Niederöfflingen since 1994, and of Lourdes since 1994